On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 07:30 AM, Todd Vierling wrote:
> : They were, however, artifacts of their particular implementation of
> : M:N, not properties inherent to the M:N strategy.
>
> So what? *NetBSD*'s pthreads project has been how long coming with
> completely unstable (forget even thinking about performance yet!)
> results?
Actually, Nathan's Usenix paper showed that our pthreads implementation
is actually fairly decent, performance-wise. In many common cases, we
have very low context switch latency due to not having to trap into the
kernel.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>